Gargoyle Ideas

I have many ideas on what I want my gargoyle to look like. For example, I want my gargoyle to have a beard like the one on this creature. 

I want my gargoyles' horns and ears to look similar to this.

I want my gargoyles' nose to look similar to this as well.

Also, I want my gargoyles' eyebrows to look like this as well as his eyes.

I love how this gargoyles face shows emotion and his face is very detailed as well.

I like the way this gargoyles' teeth look.

This is a perfect, all around picture of what I want my gargoyle to look like because these gargoyles are very detailed and show a lot of emotion in their faces.

Completed Work

Zittle the Seahorse

Zittle,

A seahorse so brittle. 

I am 

A curious seahorse

Of turquoise and the deep ocean blue

Skittering past

Gapping jaws

Of a killer whale.

From doing this project, I learned a lot about my creativity and I also learned a lot about the art of paper mâché and how fun it is to create and work with. As I look back on my project, I really struggled with creating the body of my creature because it seemed to never be the right shape or form that I wanted it to be. Everything after that was mostly easy because once you had the structure of your body down and you paper mâchéd your creature, you got to start decorating which was really exciting. Some of the successes of my creature would be making a body that was sturdy enough to withhold the weight of everything as well as the head of my creature because it is very detailed and stands out as well. In the end, I feel really good about the final product of my creature because I worked really hard on it and in most parts, it came out the way I wanted it too!

Creature in Progress

Creating my creature was for sure a work in progress because of all the steps it took to get the creature right where I wanted it to be. First off, I started with a simple sketch of my creature in my notebook with details that gave me ideas for the final product. The first step in creating your creature is that you start crumbling up paper to form the shape and head of the body. Next, I wrapped tin foil around my creature to add more details to its head, fin, and tail. After that, I paper mâchéd the creature, putting about three to four layers on it to make it become more sturdy. Finally, I put white paint over my sturdy creature and started to decorate it with paint, stickers, tissue paper, and drawings.

Here is the final sketch of my creature, which helped me with creating the real version of it. 

After I made the head and body of my creature, I wrapped it with tin foil.

Next, I wrapped tape around the tin foil to make the creature more sturdy.

This was my final version of my creature, before I started to paper mâché. 

This is after I have paper mached my creature and I have added some cellulose clay to make some of the appearances stick out more.

After paper mâchéing my creature, I added white paint so I could start to decorate it.

To create the final product of my creature, I used tissue paper, paint, marbles for the eyes, and along the way I used paint pens for some of my details.

Perspective Drawing

  

      Some challenges that I encountered with my one point perspective is drawing every line back to the vanishing point and drawing the roofs of the buildings. Besides that, there were many successes of my perspective drawing including the trees, bushes, texture, and shading that made my drawing really come to life. I learned the background of drawing one and two point perspectives and I learned the meaning of depth in a picture. In addition, I learned that if you draw what you see rather than what you think you know your drawing will be more realistic. In conclusion, I feel really good about my drawing because I put a lot of effort into it and it ended up looking very similar to the picture because of my understanding of perpective.  

My Perspective: Two

One-Point perspective

I created one-point perspective by putting four sketchbooks together and pointing the camera at an angle so it looks like the sketchbooks eventually converge at a vanishing point.

Two-Point perspective

I created two-point perspective by taking a picture of a corner of a table at an angle, so it looks like the edges of the table are eventually going to make a vanishing point outside of the picture.

One Point and Two Point Perspectives

One point perspective is defined as a drawing that has a single vanishing point, usually directly opposite to the viewer's eye and that is usually on the horizon line.

Two point perspective is defined as a drawing with one set of parallel lines to the picture plane and two sets oblique to it. (The parallel lines that are oblique to the picture plane converge to a vanishing point, which means that this set-up will require two vanishing points.)

Mandala

            

              While creating my mandala there was many challenges that I faced, but in the end it turned out better than I expected. In the beginning, I was struggling with the color patterns and the center of attention, but I figured it out once I added all of the patterns in. I also had trouble finding a background that matched with my mandala. After looking, I realized that I needed to arrange my colors to find a backround that at blended in with my mandala, so I ended up finding this one that created a great sense of texture. From creating my mandala, I learned about using monochromatic and analogous colors to create a balanced piece of art and I learned the principles of digital art. 

              I feel good about my mandala because I spent a lot of time and effort to make everything look nice and balance. I like how. I like how I used the monochromatic color scheme to make the whole mandala appear soothing to the eye.